EJToday: Top Headlines

"EPA Proposes to Add First-Ever Navajo Site to Superfund List" [9]

"The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to add the Lukachukai Mountains Mining District to the Superfund National Priorities List, according to EPA Thursday. The site, located entirely on the Navajo Nation, holds over a hundred waste piles stemming from uranium mining, the agency said."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [14]
People & Population [15]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [20], 03/31/2023
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"Long-Awaited Rules for Carbon Offset Market Disappoint Experts" [21]

"A widely touted effort to clean up the embattled carbon-offsets market has been met with disappointment among experts."

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [22]
Environmental Politics [23]
Forests [24]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [17]
International [26]
Source: Bloomberg Green [27], 03/31/2023
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"‘Gone Wrong’: Doubts On Carbon-Credit Program In Peru Forest" [28]

"The Cordillera Azul National Park on the eastern flank of the Peruvian Andes takes in a sweep of Amazon rainforest, mountains and waterfalls in a territory about the size of Connecticut, so precious that tens of millions of dollars in carbon credits have been sold in a program that supporters said would protect its trees."

Biodiversity [29]
Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [23]
Journalism & Media [31]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [25]
Public [17]
South America [32]
Source: AP [33], 03/31/2023
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"Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production" [34]

"Coal industry influence and climate change denial paved the state’s race to the clean energy bottom. As one lawmaker put it: “God created coal for people.”"

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [35]
Source: Inside Climate News [36], 03/31/2023
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"Court Brings Mountain Valley Pipeline Closer To Completion" [37]

"The Mountain Valley pipeline inched toward completion after a three-judge panel Wednesday unanimously denied environmentalists’ challenge to a Virginia water permit for the planned natural gas project."

Energy & Fuel [30]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [38]
Source: E&E News [39], 03/31/2023
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"Australia Makes Biggest Carbon Polluters Curb Emissions" [40]

"The Australian Parliament created landmark new laws Thursday that will make the nation’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters reduce their emissions or pay for carbon credits."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
Australia & Oceania [41]
Source: AP [42], 03/31/2023
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"Horses Came To American West By Early 1600s, Study Finds" [43]

"A new analysis of horse bones gathered from museums across the Great Plains and northern Rockies has revealed that horses were present in the grasslands by the early 1600s, earlier than many written histories suggest."

Biodiversity [29]
People & Population [15]
Wildlife [44]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: AP [45], 03/31/2023
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"Senate Votes To Overturn Biden Water Rule" [46]

"The Senate on Wednesday afternoon approved a resolution against the Biden administration’s signature water policy, in a move all but guaranteed to spark the president’s second veto ever."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [25]
Pollution [16]
Water & Oceans [47]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [48], 03/30/2023
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"House GOP To Pass Energy Package With Eye On Gas Prices, 2024" [49]

"Democrats argue the legislation, which is “dead on arrival” in the Senate, doesn’t address critical climate issues".

Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Washington Post [50], 03/30/2023
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"Biden Administration Sells Oil And Gas Leases In The Gulf Of Mexico" [51]

"Fossil fuel energy companies looking to extract oil and natural gas from U.S. waters in the Gulf of Mexico got a boost on Wednesday, as they secured access to 1.6 million acres of waters offered at auction."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [30]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Water & Oceans [47]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: NPR [52], 03/30/2023
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"EPA Oversight Hampered by Funding Gap, Watchdog Tells Lawmakers" [53]

"The EPA’s inspector general raised concerns to House lawmakers Wednesday that his office can’t adequately track the tens of billions of dollars flowing into the agency from the infrastructure and climate laws under its current funding."

Economy & Business [22]
Environmental Health [11]
Government [54]
Infrastructure [55]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [56], 03/30/2023
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UN Wants the World Court to Address Nations’ Climate Obligations [57]

"The rulings, while legally non-binding, could still carry significant moral and legal weight. A group of 18 climate-vulnerable nations are seeking an opinion from the “World Court,” with support from 117 other countries."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [17]
International [26]
Source: Inside Climate News [58], 03/30/2023
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"EPA Leaves Americans In The Dark On Toxic Air Pollution" [59]

"Across the United States, residents of neighborhoods abutting refineries, chemical plants and other major industrial sources can generally be sure of two facts: Those facilities emits tons of dangerous pollutants and EPA rarely requires monitoring for their presence in local air."

Chemicals [60]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [23]
Journalism & Media [31]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Pollution [16]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [18]
Source: E&E News [61], 03/30/2023
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Rising Antarctic Ice Melt Will Badly Slow Global Ocean Flows: Study [62]

"Rapidly melting Antarctic ice is dramatically slowing down the flow of water through the world's oceans, and could have a disastrous impact on global climate, the marine food chain and even the stability of ice shelves, new research has found."

Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [63]
Science [64]
Water & Oceans [47]
Public [17]
International [26]
Antarctica & Arctic [65]
Source: Reuters [66], 03/30/2023
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"Elderly Swiss Women Bring European Court's First Climate Case" [67]

"Thousands of elderly Swiss women have joined forces in a groundbreaking case heard on Wednesday at the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that their government's "woefully inadequate" efforts to fight global warming violate their human rights."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
People & Population [15]
Public [17]
International [26]
Europe [68]
Source: Reuters [69], 03/30/2023
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